sternal coxal process

sternal coxal process
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
1. A projection of the sternum serving for the ventral point of articulation with the coxa.
2. In Culicidae, a winglike expansion of the meso- and metabasisterna; ventral process.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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